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The Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) operates state prisons in Indiana. It has its headquarters in Indianapolis . [ 1 ] As of 2019, the Indiana Department of Correction housed 27,140 adult Inmates, 388 juvenile Inmates, employed 5,937 State Employed Staff, and 1,718 Contracted Staff.
Plainfield Correctional Facility is a prison for men of the Indiana Department of Correction located in Plainfield, Indiana. [1] The facility opened in 1969 as the Indiana Youth Center. [2] As of 2016, the prison housed 1,659 inmates, and employed 333 staff. [3]
Constructed in 1985, CIF formerly housed the Indiana Department of Correction's PEN food products plant. However, the food products plant was replaced by a brake refurbishing factory in partnership with the industrial company Meritor, which is the largest employer of offenders in the facility. Wendy Knight is the current Warden of CIF.
Through the two-year period between 1977 and 1979, the proportion of inmates increased and the number of mental patients decreased until, in June 1979, only inmates remained. [4] Following the final transition into a prison came the construction of education and industrial complexes, gymnasium, multi-purpose building and chapel. [ 3 ]
On February 1, 1985, a riot took place at the Pendleton Correctional Facility, then still known as the Indiana Reformatory. An inmate, Lincoln Love, who also referred to himself as Lokmar Yazid Abdul Wadood and passed away in 2020 while serving a sentence for involvement with the riot, [3] [4] was badly beaten by correctional officers after he refused to vacate his cell during a weapons check ...
Aug. 11—ANDERSON — In an effort to retain correctional officers at the Madison County Jail, the Madison County Council voted to approve a pay increase. The council Tuesday approved transfers ...
Rockville Correctional Facility is a state prison located in Adams Township, Parke County, one mile (1.6 km) northwest of Rockville, Indiana.A part of the Indiana Department of Corrections, it is the largest state prison for women in Indiana with approximately 1,200 women. [1]
Branchville Correctional Facility is an Indiana Department of Correction state prison for men, located in Branchville, Perry County, Indiana, on the southern edge of the state. [1] The prison is a medium-security facility opened in 1982 and has a capacity of 1,530. As of 2019, the prison housed 1,448 inmates, and employed 256 staff. [2]